Within a few years of his experience in the armed services during World War II, a young Englishman wrote a book for a new world emerging from the devastation of war. It became one of the classics of ...

Later in life, Booker and Nobel-prize-winning author Golding critiqued and distanced himself from his first book, but readers have yet to put it down. This latest re-imagining has been produced by the ...

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A fast-growing network of private schools, the brainchild of a North Carolina neurosurgeon, is teaching 9,000 war orphans and other needy Palestinian youngsters.

Over five years ago, I wrote a column about birds that are, and should be, NFL mascots. I pointed out that northern cardinals are not scary no matter how you ...

Driving from Utah to Colorado reveals a long list of attractions such as fossil-rich parks, museums and life-size dinosaurs.

In the second of three shorts roundups ahead of the March 15 ceremony, we profile this year's Oscar nominees for animated ...

Nearly 30 years later, a bridge along the Erie Canal still carries the names of two Brighton teens — and the bond that changed everyone who knew them.

As someone who grew up playing outside until the streetlights flickered on, watching Saturday morning cartoons on a fuzzy TV, ...

New England’s notoriously harsh weather once again revealed itself with a vengeance two weeks ago, bringing extremely frigid ...

By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties ...